Solunars by Aldebaran Sidereal Academy

Patrick Machado

You said it. Milwaukee is the straightforward winner between the two.

But, thought: Weigh it against your other prognostic factors for the course of the solar year (especially, of course, SLRs). If there is no severe cluster of particular nastiness throughout (or no more than you are willing to ...

Patrick Machado

Paris is a bad idea. It's much the same as it would be in London, with a Venus-Saturn-Neptune configuration as the main feature. Even a trip to your homeland, for instance, would result in a chart that, while not straightforwardly comfortable, is deeply promoting of change and self-direction, and in ...

Patrick Machado

Could it be financial desolation? Destitution even?
For instance. Or (for instance) intense fear or perceived threat or imminence of such happening.

And you have enough going for you in longer-term prognostic factors to alleviate somewhat the punch that the Lunar Return promises by itself ...

Patrick Machado

Solar is mixed, but largely uncomfortable, with the natal Mercury-Mars conjunction very tightly angular as the prominent feature -- though it contributes mental agility in handling such a crisis -- and Neptune's precise transit to natal Moon not striking me as much ameliorated by Venus tagging along ...

Patrick Machado

That's dreadful -- my sympathies. I'll look into the prognostics for you shortly if no one beats me to it.

Patrick Machado

Do you think February 16th could be tragic? Am I to expect bereavement or loss?
(The fortnight beginning then, that is.) Those would fit the symbolism. (I hadn't mentioned that Venus tags along into the main aspect structure.) Are you expecting such an outcome in the near future? But any number of ...

Patrick Machado

Assuming you spent your latest birthday at home or nearby, your Solar Return is quite positive and exciting. It has both transiting benefics closely angular, with Venus aspecting your Moon and Mars, which along with transiting Mercury complete the group of the five main angularities. Solar Moon ...

Patrick Machado

I think they meant moving. In any case, we need the place of residence.

Patrick Machado

London is a permanently pessimistic place for you whenever you are there in regard to your relocated natal chart. (As is the UK in general.) That's one layer. Another layer is your Solar Return, which changes every year. Since you were away during your birthday, London is irrelevant in that regard ...

Patrick Machado

Perhaps the mere fact of it being a single lowercase letter (which is actually fitting since we generally don't capitalize background etc.) is distinguishing enough? And in a sense, by having it on one already has "signed on" having extra information displayed, so it might not be a big deal having ...

Patrick Machado

Been messing around with it a bit and found no additional issues. The way the program is being revised/expanded seems really solid and promising.

A minor gripe (perhaps as minor as can be) that I've had for a long time with the planetary data table:

The first cell (upper left corner) being ...

Patrick Machado

Agreed. The extra layer has always felt excessive, and a use for it has never come up.

Patrick Machado

Astrodienst gives Jupiter sesquisquare Sun/Eris 64' for your chart, FWIW.

Patrick Machado

Awesome relic! Thanks for sharing.

Patrick Machado

"Include angularities [or, foreground planets] in aspectarian" or some shortened form of that.

Patrick Machado

Folks, it seems that ecliptical partile natal aspects are being listed for every Return once again. (As early as version 0.4.13 at least.) I'm assuming this is an unintentional change? It hadn't been like that for the longest time.
That's the way Mike N had it for quite most of version 0.4.x ...

Patrick Machado

Folks, it seems that ecliptical partile natal aspects are being listed for every Return once again. (As early as version 0.4.13 at least.) I'm assuming this is an unintentional change? It hadn't been like that for the longest time.

Patrick Machado

That was an interpretive label I used owing to Saturn's prominence as a driving force in the chart. I further qualified that as acute because it is most pointedly and substantially so: Not only is the Sun in Saturn-ruled Capricorn, but Saturn itself is the most foreground planet (exactly on IC). We ...

Patrick Machado

How much weight should I give the "Other Partile Aspects" in these charts compared to the Class 1 Aspects? The strong tVe sq tJu aspect in two of the above charts looks like it could be valuable.
You might want to treat all non-foreground aspects as non-existent until you've become quite confident ...

Patrick Machado

I note that your questions, as written, are about him and his world to an extent that may elude astrological analysis without his participation in it. Are you asking about his astrological character? He is extremely individualistic overall, something perhaps masked by a measure of charm, and I can ...

Patrick Machado

It's at 100%.

I'm making a lot of progress on a Linux port, by the way :twisted: MacOS will be next.
It runs on Linux; I'm just working out kinks.
Looking forward to it, although--even if I did make a half-baked attempt at running it with Wine some time ago--the VM setup doesn't inconvenience me ...

Patrick Machado

(Only just migrated from TMSA to TM.) I don't know if this is at all relevant, but some lines of text on the landing page aren't being displayed fully here. Here's a screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/oq4prqc2zbi59oov661x4/TM.png?rlkey=92n08p01v5175sb96duirhrqk&e=1&st=mf85i9u7&dl=0

For ...

Patrick Machado

Excellent addition!

Patrick Machado

Prefacing this by saying that I have not been affected nor am likely to be at this juncture.

My state is undergoing devastating, if not apocalyptic, flooding due to persistent rain all throughout this past week—the greatest natural disaster of its history. Thus far, there have been confirmed over ...

Patrick Machado

I find the proposal of the project--specifically the construction, individual and communal, of an understanding of the planets as specified dynamic and driving forces in us that impel behavior--enormously valuable and desirable. I do, however, have a particular theoretical reservation regarding the ...

Patrick Machado

The data now in his first reply to the thread is correct. (If we use specifically the coordinates for the hospital, it's marginally different. Nothing of consequence.) Never mind the data I had quoted.

Patrick Machado

Yes, I've always had that opinion.

Patrick Machado

Hi, Max. Welcome.

Pl Longitude Lat Speed RA Decl Azi Alt PVL Ang G
Mo 26Aq23'21" 0N38 +15° 9' 351°27' 3S 0 252°24' +19° 9' 200° 2' 59%
Su 10Le51' 7" 0S 0 +57'57" 157°15' 9N31 75°42' - 3°57' 4° 4' 96% A
Me 2Vi 1'24" 0S 5 + 1°30' 176°51' 1N16 70°15' -24°27' 25°47' 49%
Ve 25Ge11' 6" 2S36 + 1° 0 ...

Patrick Machado

With no other context, it could be a time of competitive or physical excellence, or financial recklessness or risk.

Patrick Machado

For a few reasons, I didn't travel for this SSR, the main one being that I didn't feel like it, which speaks to how pressing I considered it. Not maximizing the natal benefics also makes it a more interesting astrological piece to watch, I reckon. Here's a detailed breakdown of how it set up. (It ...

Patrick Machado

The lunar and demi-lunar are surprisingly harsh. Do you think these are tied in? Or unrelated? Your spectacularly positive and fitting SSR at work?
I think they're mostly unrelated, especially being at their tail end. (The full Lunar didn't strike me as particularly bad.) Yes, going into the ...

Patrick Machado

Today I was officially granted the title of Psychologist. (With Mercury returning and Jupiter squaring solar Mercury.) I had never told anyone this, but the decision to embark on this path, over eight years ago, was largely informed by astrological insight from my chart. At this level of fulfillment ...

Patrick Machado

Santa Catarina is the state, right? If we were to assume your birthtime is precisely right, it looks like Curitiba is a bit to far west, Florianopolis a little too far east, so... Blumenau? That puts natal Venus 0°08' from EP-a and natal Jupiter 1°29' from MC, all quite nice and a counterbalance to ...

Patrick Machado

An update on this as the SSR approaches. I found that the natal Venus on EP in RA line goes through Santa Catarina (i.e., the neighbouring state). It's around 5' from exact in Joinville and could be fine-tuned there. The São Paulo idea, then, is not worth it--entailing about double the distance and ...

Patrick Machado

I have been feeling pretty isolated but a lot of that is my own doing and I deal with solitude pretty well since I’m pretty introverted.
Natal Pluto is the most angular planet in your current Solar, so that tracks very exactly.

Anyway to know what area of my life will be affected by this ...

Patrick Machado

I currently live in Tampa, Fl where I also spent my last birthday.
Your previous Solar Return (valid from August 2022 to August 2023) was quite miserable, with a lot of Neptune interwoven along the whole thing. A time of much vulnerability, mental and emotional confusion, irritation, and the like ...

Patrick Machado

Regarding the discrepancy, my best guess is that 11:44 PM was meant instead of AM. That chart does have Pluto foreground at all of the locations Nolia mentioned.

Patrick Machado

Can you elaborate some? The past few years haven’t been smooth for me as it is. Really ever. I’m a single mom, my daughter is an adult now but it certainly hasn’t been easy. My father passed when I was 25, my mother passed last yr and brother this past November. I found out I have afib last yr and ...

Patrick Machado

To be honest, natal Pluto in return charts does tend to feel more uncomfortable than transiting Pluto. (To be fair, given my Pluto, perhaps I don't get an opinion on this.)

Patrick Machado

The involvement of Eris, both transiting and natal, is noteworthy. But, wow, an exact Moon-Jupiter mundane square. Would you (either) say that persisted?

Patrick Machado

I also notice that you still live at your birth place. One of the eventual questions to answer is whether that matters.
When I move far enough for parans to change, I lean toward somewhere I have Jupiter (and Venus) angular. With Saturn already strong natally, the coexistence of pronounced Jupiter ...

Patrick Machado

Thank you.

I've been taken with the mundane natal Jupiter-Saturn square that has emerged in Return charts once in a while, so the first instinct is to think that it is something that doesn't exist routinely, but Returns have multiple things going on at once, and just because they put something in ...

Patrick Machado

Your Mercury for Cary is just 5°54' off the angle. See under the PVL column in TMSA: 185°54', the Descendant being at 180°.

In any case, I'd point to the Sun-Mercury aspect I mentioned rather than the non-luminary Mercury aspects you mentioned. They characterize your Mercury, but they don't ...

Patrick Machado

Sure enough Mercury is the most angular planet...
It's a tad on the wider side for a relocated chart, but it is fitting that Mercury is your most foreground planet in the area where you took on the professional training and work that you did. Also, there are Moon/Mercury and Sun/Mercury midpoints ...

Patrick Machado

I live 1800 miles from my birth place, but still in the US.
Your relocated chart(s) could be significant. In particular, you could possibly have your Mercury foreground where you live or have lived. This could have colored your history and interests, in addition to your natal chart. (Without ...

Patrick Machado

Hello, Sidus. You've mentioned that you moved states as a child. Did you move significantly far away from your birth location at a young age? Do you now live significantly far away from there?

I see that you have a 10° multiple Sun-Mercury aspect only 13' wide. That may be a noteworthy layer to ...

Patrick Machado

So, September 4 is the date of the peak of the storm. I've read it described multiple times as the date of the formation of the cyclone, so I relayed it as such, but it was indeed when the heavy hitting occurred ( i.e. , what matters). At least once I've read something like between the 3rd and the ...

Patrick Machado

Early this month my state (Rio Grande do Sul) went through the second largest natural disaster in its history. An extratropical cyclone advanced through the region, leading to heavy rainfall, winds, and devastating floods. Almost 100 municipalities and 350,000 people were affected, including nearly ...

Patrick Machado

That's why I asked about octiles in return charts because both Venus & Saturn are aspecting my natal Sun. My Sun is barely middleground though but at least it bridges a connection.
Since the Sun isn't foreground, the aspects to it that are important are the transits within 1°. In that regard ...

Patrick Machado

Regarding your upcoming SSR, I concur with the assessment above.

Please do not sugar coat anything, you didn't with my 2022 SSR & it turned out far less severe than believed.
Just as a big maybe, an idea to ponder about and perhaps promptly discard... In your current SSR, transiting Jupiter ties ...

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